Meta has recently released Code Llama 70B, the latest update to the company’s open-source artificial intelligence (AI) coding model. Announcing the release, the California-based tech conglomerate called it “the largest and best-performing model in the Code Llama family.” As per the company’s report, Code Llama 70B scored 53 percent in accuracy on the HumanEval benchmark, highlighting capabilities nearing OpenAI’s GPT 4 that scored 67 percent. The latest AI assistant joins the company’s existing coding models Code Llama 7B, Code Llama 13B, and Code Llama 34B.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Code Llama 70B via a Facebook post and said, “We’re open sourcing a new and improved Code Llama, including a larger 70B parameter model. Writing and editing code has emerged as one of the most important uses of AI models today. [..] I’m proud of the progress here, and looking forward to including these advances in Llama 3 and future models as well.”
Code Llama 70B is available in three versions — the foundational model, the Code LLama – Python, and Code Llama – Instruct. Python is for the specific programming language and Instruct has natural language processing (LNP) capabilities, which means you can use this even if you do not know how to code.